The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 30, 2008 : 11:40 AM -- Calling attention to a handful of other cable-related things that happened this week
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) August 29, 2008 : In latest FCC salvo, Verizon all but tells cable: 'We won't adopt Tru2way and you can't make us'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (14) August 28, 2008 : As expected, Comcast is settting a monthly 250 GB cap on broadband usage starting Oct. 1, but MSO won't charge for exceeding the cap ... at least not yet
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 28, 2008 : 1:40 PM -- Report: Comcast to go live with 250 gigabyte cap for excessive users on Oct. 1... UPDATED 4:00 PM
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) August 28, 2008 : In the wake of a ruling favorable to Cablevision's 'RS-DVR,' TiVo chief believes company's software and services can play a role regardless of whether video is stored locally or out on the network
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (12) August 28, 2008 : Full-power broadcasters are switching to digital in February, but many MSOs are on the regulatory hook to repackage and deliver some TV signals in analog format. Here's how many will meet that challenge
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 27, 2008 : Consumer electronics lobby says the FCC should toss out a request by the cable op to 'update' its set-top rules and allow the deployment of simple one-way adapters with HDTV capabilities
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 27, 2008 : 3:50 PM -- It's time to take the Comcast blinders off for a moment and see what else is going on with Docsis 3.0 these days...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) August 26, 2008 : The satellite company says it's the first to deliver all standard-def and hi-def programming in the new format, but it won't be alone for long
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 25, 2008 : 5:30 PM -- Satellite broadband player borrows a page from cable with leased option, mulls offering faster speeds in some areas of the US
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) August 25, 2008 : A case in Hawaii serves as a warning that MSOs have to be more careful about switching to switched digital video
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 25, 2008 : Broadcom looks to scale up its digital television business with a $192.8M deal for AMD assets – including some CableCARD product – and possibly 530 employees
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2008 : 6:00 PM -- Calling attention to a handful of other cable-related things that happened this week
News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4) August 22, 2008 : Embarq is already calling for volunteers as it moves on plan to cut as many as 700 workers from its network services group, citing rising competition, fuel costs, and a sluggish economy
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2008 : Broadcasting lobby argues that an exemption for some small operators 'undermines' elements of the digital transition and could cause consumer confusion
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2008 : 11:00 AM -- Smaller cable ops get exemption, but the FCC has yet to publish the details of the just-adopted order... UPDATED 12:40 PM
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2008 : The FCC didn't like the way Comcast uses Sandvine's gear, but Sandvine says it could still have a role in the operator's new 'protocol agnostic' era
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 21, 2008 : 5:59 PM -- The major MSO not doing WiMax offers a nibble of its wireless ambitions
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 21, 2008 : 11:00 AM -- Comcast teams with Intel, but will these 'widgets' show up on a set-top near you anytime soon?
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 21, 2008 : Concurrent Computer Corp. execs give canned, boring answers to M&A questions. Meanwhile, revenue declines and net losses continue
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 20, 2008 : Three somewhat vague things will occur if Comcast fails to comply with the steps outlined in a just-published FCC order that forces the MSO to halt its 'discriminatory' network management practices
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 20, 2008 : 10:20 AM -- The FCC today posted the official order that calls on Comcast to stop its 'discriminatory network management practices'
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 19, 2008 : 3:55 PM -- Broadcasting lobby argues that a DTV 'blanket waiver' for some smaller cable systems could breed consumer confusion
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 19, 2008 : Completes an interop with BigBand as the Paul Allen-backed company preps a new CableCARD-based HD DVR for deployment later this year with corporate cousin Charter Communications
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 18, 2008 : CableLabs posting reveals that Taiwan-based company has become the seventh vendor to obtain Docsis 3.0 certification for a modem that can pump out speeds greater than 100 Mbit/s
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 18, 2008 : A new system-on-a-chip will be the workhorse powering a new breed of digital terminal adapters (DTAs) that are central to Comcast's 'all-digital' project
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 15, 2008 : A new CableCARD platform and some DTAs highlight Evolution Broadband's plan to bring smaller cable operators to an all-digital world
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 14, 2008 : Vendor has quietly gained Docsis modem share in the past year and hopes to grow it further using a new family of Docsis 3.0 gear, starting with a recently certified standalone cable modem
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 14, 2008 : 11:20 AM -- Report: 'Major acquisitions' off the table... but dividends are on the way UPDATED 8/18 NOON
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5) August 13, 2008 : 5:45 PM -- Given the evidence, your honor, this case doesn't stand a snowball's chance...
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 13, 2008 : 12:35 PM -- Cable lobbyists aren't wild about a 'voluntary' NAB proposal that aims to smooth the DTV transition
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 13, 2008 : NCTA chief challenges Verizon's argument that tru2way will throw a monkey wrench into the telco's video platform. But they agree that an IP interface, not 1394, is the future of an 'all-provider' solution
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 12, 2008 : 5:20 PM -- A 'micro-client' architecture from Silicon Image deemed 'complementary' to tru2way impresses engineers at the CableLabs summer conference
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 12, 2008 : Premium programmer will turn off its direct-to-consumer service on Sept. 30 and focus its broadband strategy solely on Starz Play, a wholesale offering tailored for high-speed service providers UPDATED 2:55 PM
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 11, 2008 : Tech spinoff signs on the dotted line with CableLabs, thus erasing any doubts about whether Charlie Ergen is serious about entering the cable set-top business
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 11, 2008 : Competitive cabler says a lack of marketing promotions, not churn, contributed to subscriber losses in the traditionally weak second quarter of 2008
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 8, 2008 : Canadian MSO launches TV caller ID to subscribers for another $2 per month as the lines between IP-based services continue to blend. Deal marks the largest so far for closely held Integra5
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 8, 2008 : Analyst says top Cablevision execs plan to vet out 'strategic options,' including possible non-core spinoffs, during meetings next week with the company's top 20 investors
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 7, 2008 : In addition to goosing full-year guidance, Mediacom will launch a subscriber acquisition campaign this fall targeted to consumers who still rely on over-the-air video signals
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4) August 6, 2008 : Could revisit the copyright model for its popular Start Over service should this week's court decision involving Cablevision's Remote Storage DVR hold up for the long term
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 5, 2008 : MSO, which bled 45,000 basic subs in Q2, says it will grab back spectrum for hi-def and Docsis 3.0 through a combo of switched digital video deployments and the start of an 'all-digital' strategy
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (11) August 5, 2008 : Telco says it doesn't want to kill tru2way, but it's urging the FCC to also consider an Ethernet-powered, IP-based option that is more compatible with Verizon's fiber-fed FiOS network
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) August 4, 2008 : MSO's 'remote-storage' digital video recorder is alive again after a higher court finds it does not directly infringe copyright rules and should be afforded the same protection as regular DVRs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 4, 2008 : John Callahan, a software and video engineer known for developing advanced applications and navigation systems for Time Warner Cable, has been named chief technology officer of ActiveVideo Networks
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 1, 2008 : In a divisive but expected 3-2 vote, the Commission orders Comcast to cease the use of its existing bandwidth management platform by year-end, and did not hit the MSO with a financial penalty
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 1, 2008 : SDV specialist could win back some credibility among investors after it posted better than expected revenues and earnings, but some analysts are concerned about the speed of SDV revenue recognition
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 30, 2008 : 11:40 AM -- Calling attention to a handful of other cable-related things that happened this week
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) August 29, 2008 : In latest FCC salvo, Verizon all but tells cable: 'We won't adopt Tru2way and you can't make us'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (14) August 28, 2008 : As expected, Comcast is settting a monthly 250 GB cap on broadband usage starting Oct. 1, but MSO won't charge for exceeding the cap ... at least not yet
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 28, 2008 : 1:40 PM -- Report: Comcast to go live with 250 gigabyte cap for excessive users on Oct. 1... UPDATED 4:00 PM
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) August 28, 2008 : In the wake of a ruling favorable to Cablevision's 'RS-DVR,' TiVo chief believes company's software and services can play a role regardless of whether video is stored locally or out on the network
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (12) August 28, 2008 : Full-power broadcasters are switching to digital in February, but many MSOs are on the regulatory hook to repackage and deliver some TV signals in analog format. Here's how many will meet that challenge
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 27, 2008 : Consumer electronics lobby says the FCC should toss out a request by the cable op to 'update' its set-top rules and allow the deployment of simple one-way adapters with HDTV capabilities
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 27, 2008 : 3:50 PM -- It's time to take the Comcast blinders off for a moment and see what else is going on with Docsis 3.0 these days...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) August 26, 2008 : The satellite company says it's the first to deliver all standard-def and hi-def programming in the new format, but it won't be alone for long
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 25, 2008 : 5:30 PM -- Satellite broadband player borrows a page from cable with leased option, mulls offering faster speeds in some areas of the US
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) August 25, 2008 : A case in Hawaii serves as a warning that MSOs have to be more careful about switching to switched digital video
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 25, 2008 : Broadcom looks to scale up its digital television business with a $192.8M deal for AMD assets – including some CableCARD product – and possibly 530 employees
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2008 : 6:00 PM -- Calling attention to a handful of other cable-related things that happened this week
News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4) August 22, 2008 : Embarq is already calling for volunteers as it moves on plan to cut as many as 700 workers from its network services group, citing rising competition, fuel costs, and a sluggish economy
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2008 : Broadcasting lobby argues that an exemption for some small operators 'undermines' elements of the digital transition and could cause consumer confusion
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2008 : 11:00 AM -- Smaller cable ops get exemption, but the FCC has yet to publish the details of the just-adopted order... UPDATED 12:40 PM
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 22, 2008 : The FCC didn't like the way Comcast uses Sandvine's gear, but Sandvine says it could still have a role in the operator's new 'protocol agnostic' era
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 21, 2008 : 5:59 PM -- The major MSO not doing WiMax offers a nibble of its wireless ambitions
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 21, 2008 : 11:00 AM -- Comcast teams with Intel, but will these 'widgets' show up on a set-top near you anytime soon?
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 21, 2008 : Concurrent Computer Corp. execs give canned, boring answers to M&A questions. Meanwhile, revenue declines and net losses continue
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 20, 2008 : Three somewhat vague things will occur if Comcast fails to comply with the steps outlined in a just-published FCC order that forces the MSO to halt its 'discriminatory' network management practices
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 20, 2008 : 10:20 AM -- The FCC today posted the official order that calls on Comcast to stop its 'discriminatory network management practices'
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 19, 2008 : 3:55 PM -- Broadcasting lobby argues that a DTV 'blanket waiver' for some smaller cable systems could breed consumer confusion
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 19, 2008 : Completes an interop with BigBand as the Paul Allen-backed company preps a new CableCARD-based HD DVR for deployment later this year with corporate cousin Charter Communications
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 18, 2008 : CableLabs posting reveals that Taiwan-based company has become the seventh vendor to obtain Docsis 3.0 certification for a modem that can pump out speeds greater than 100 Mbit/s
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 18, 2008 : A new system-on-a-chip will be the workhorse powering a new breed of digital terminal adapters (DTAs) that are central to Comcast's 'all-digital' project
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 15, 2008 : A new CableCARD platform and some DTAs highlight Evolution Broadband's plan to bring smaller cable operators to an all-digital world
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 14, 2008 : Vendor has quietly gained Docsis modem share in the past year and hopes to grow it further using a new family of Docsis 3.0 gear, starting with a recently certified standalone cable modem
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 14, 2008 : 11:20 AM -- Report: 'Major acquisitions' off the table... but dividends are on the way UPDATED 8/18 NOON
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5) August 13, 2008 : 5:45 PM -- Given the evidence, your honor, this case doesn't stand a snowball's chance...
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 13, 2008 : 12:35 PM -- Cable lobbyists aren't wild about a 'voluntary' NAB proposal that aims to smooth the DTV transition
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 13, 2008 : NCTA chief challenges Verizon's argument that tru2way will throw a monkey wrench into the telco's video platform. But they agree that an IP interface, not 1394, is the future of an 'all-provider' solution
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 12, 2008 : 5:20 PM -- A 'micro-client' architecture from Silicon Image deemed 'complementary' to tru2way impresses engineers at the CableLabs summer conference
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 12, 2008 : Premium programmer will turn off its direct-to-consumer service on Sept. 30 and focus its broadband strategy solely on Starz Play, a wholesale offering tailored for high-speed service providers UPDATED 2:55 PM
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 11, 2008 : Tech spinoff signs on the dotted line with CableLabs, thus erasing any doubts about whether Charlie Ergen is serious about entering the cable set-top business
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 11, 2008 : Competitive cabler says a lack of marketing promotions, not churn, contributed to subscriber losses in the traditionally weak second quarter of 2008
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 8, 2008 : Canadian MSO launches TV caller ID to subscribers for another $2 per month as the lines between IP-based services continue to blend. Deal marks the largest so far for closely held Integra5
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 8, 2008 : Analyst says top Cablevision execs plan to vet out 'strategic options,' including possible non-core spinoffs, during meetings next week with the company's top 20 investors
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 7, 2008 : In addition to goosing full-year guidance, Mediacom will launch a subscriber acquisition campaign this fall targeted to consumers who still rely on over-the-air video signals
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4) August 6, 2008 : Could revisit the copyright model for its popular Start Over service should this week's court decision involving Cablevision's Remote Storage DVR hold up for the long term
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 5, 2008 : MSO, which bled 45,000 basic subs in Q2, says it will grab back spectrum for hi-def and Docsis 3.0 through a combo of switched digital video deployments and the start of an 'all-digital' strategy
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (11) August 5, 2008 : Telco says it doesn't want to kill tru2way, but it's urging the FCC to also consider an Ethernet-powered, IP-based option that is more compatible with Verizon's fiber-fed FiOS network
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) August 4, 2008 : MSO's 'remote-storage' digital video recorder is alive again after a higher court finds it does not directly infringe copyright rules and should be afforded the same protection as regular DVRs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 4, 2008 : John Callahan, a software and video engineer known for developing advanced applications and navigation systems for Time Warner Cable, has been named chief technology officer of ActiveVideo Networks
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 1, 2008 : In a divisive but expected 3-2 vote, the Commission orders Comcast to cease the use of its existing bandwidth management platform by year-end, and did not hit the MSO with a financial penalty
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment August 1, 2008 : SDV specialist could win back some credibility among investors after it posted better than expected revenues and earnings, but some analysts are concerned about the speed of SDV revenue recognition
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